A 250kg bomb (551 lbs) from World War II was found during morning work on Borussia Dortmund's Westfalenstadion stadium's VIP area and the surrounding area was quickly evacuated with a scheduled press conference moved to the club's training ground.

As many as 32 bombs dropped by the Germans during World War II into the Thames river, that were carried by tides until they reached the shore in Essex, have now been detonated by a bomb disposal squad.

More than 10,000 people were evacuated from a residential neighbourhood in the German city of Potsdam after the discovery of an unexploded 250 kilogram (550-pound) bomb from World War II in the yard of a house.

Explosives experts in Germany detonated the remains of a 550-pound (250 kilogrammes) World War II bomb in central Munich on Tuesday evening. The DAPD news agency cited a police spokesman as saying the bomb was successfully destroyed on Tuesday evening.